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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Genius Wars.
Setting labels used: Sydney, Australia, university setting, suburban life, city setting, United States, cyberspace, online society, surveillance society
Focused on “modern world” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A sheltered teen genius in foster care joins a secret hacker squad, but the offer may be another trap.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Australia · Sydney, Australia · contemporary · near-future tech · secret facility · foster home · police surveillance · computer-mediated world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1626
In a near-future world of body-changing tech, two young women begin a sweet, queer romance while navigating difference and trust.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future · futuristic society · Australia · university setting · college setting · soft sci-fi world · technologically advanced society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2074
A skeptical journalist is pulled into a hunt for a hacker movement while uncovering a data platform that can shape lives.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · Vienna · New York · contemporary · near future · digital world · urban surveillance · globally networked society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2222
Haunted and hunted, a sarcastic teen metahuman faces a city-threatening enemy while searching for answers about her mother.
Why this is here
Setting labels: urban setting · contemporary setting · school/campus setting · compound setting · secret facility · modern world · superpowered world · government organization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2556
A rebellious teen shelters a mysterious boy with a lethal touch, exposing a secret world of powered captives.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · modern world · corporate conspiracy · captivity facility · teen social world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2674
A teen artist caught at ground zero of an alien attack must survive, adapt, and unite with other teens to fight back.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Sydney · Australia · near future · worldwide · urban setting · post-disaster cityscape · real-world Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2380
In a near-future Australia, a lonely professor buys a custom android companion—then discovers he may be becoming sentient.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 2068 · Australia · near future · dystopian future · android-integrated society · surveillance state · high-tech future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2441
A trailer-park heiress is hunted through a lawless future city while inheriting her father’s violent, high-tech empire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · futuristic city · lawless city · desert city · cyberpunk city · dystopian city · surveillance society · high-tech society · social media future · utopia for the rich · city noir · anarchic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2495
A rookie FBI agent in a near-future post-pandemic world investigates a murder tied to a new society of locked-in people.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · Earth · United States · futuristic society · post-pandemic world · virtual world · shared virtual space · corporate world · law enforcement setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2500
A woman everyone forgets becomes a thief and gets pulled into a battle against a manipulative self-optimization app.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · global · international · urban · digital society · technologically mediated world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2510
A rogue internet intelligence and a Holmes-like detective collide in a grotesque, occult-laced mystery in modern New York.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern New York · internet age · contemporary setting · urban setting · occult reality · technological uncanny · global system
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2518
A tech-skeptic infiltrates a mega-corporation to sabotage it from within, but its control keeps expanding.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · tech-dominated society · San Francisco Bay · corporate campus · digital surveillance · online retail · social media
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2528
